ABSTRACT
Dismissal on grounds of redundancy is, as people have seen, not ‘unfair’. Provided that proper notice of dismissal was given, it has never been possible successfully to claim compensation for such a dismissal at common law. It must also be admitted that trade unions as a whole had failed to secure, by voluntary agreement, any widespread system of compensation for redundancy. The legal provisions of the statutory system of compensation for redundancy are considerably more technical and complex than those examined in the previous chapter in connection with unfair dismissal. No redundancy payment is due unless the claimant has been dismissed with or without notice, or where his contract, being a fixed term contract, expires; or where the contract is terminated without notice by the employee in circumstances such that he is entitled by reason of the employer’s conduct to do so.
